A Research For Examınıng Work Alıenatıon Through Demographıc Characterıstıcs

Work alienation, from an employees point of view, is defined as seeing the work meaningless and purposeless, being not satisfied from the relations within the organization, losing expectations and hopes about future, perceiving himself as a simple element of the system and as a result of this feeling lonely, inadequate and powerless. Work alienation can be easily specified as dissatisfaction, boredom, monotony, emotional and physical weakness, inadequacy, reluctance and loneliness that the individual perceives against the work he has done. It can be said that inconsistency between the characteristics of the work of an individual and his/her own characteristics and expectations, being not explaining himself fully, being not emotionally satisfied with his work, growing away from work and alienated from the work are the main reasons of alienation. The aim of the study is to examine employees’ work alienation levels in terms of the demographic characteristics. Data of the research were collected through questionnaire technique among 109 employees of a public institution affiliated to Kastamonu province. In the questionnaire used in the study, there are demographic questions in the first part and there are questions about work alienation levels of employees in the second part. In the study, “Work Alienation Scale” was used to determine the alienation levels of employees and the reliability of the scale was found as 92,5%. By using the Anova and t-test analyses, how the work alienation level of employees vary in terms of their demographic characteristics have examined. In the light of findings; while there were found significant differences in work alienation levels of employees in terms of their gender, marital status and total seniority, there were no differences in terms of their status, age, education degree and seniority in current workplace.